At the end of this activity, students should be able to describe how human activities cause global changes in the natural environment, describe the dependency of humans on environmental resources and factors, explain the necessity of taking into account the effects of human activities on the natural environment in macroeconomic plans and calculations, describe the necessity to minimize the adverse effects of humans on the natural environment, and explain the difficulties in assessing the proportional effects of human activities and natural processes on the natural environment.

Originally released by Learnetic, 2016.